Fetchez La Vache

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most of the UK folks swear by Chris@srs (member here) don't know if they ship to Malaysia though, but there's b&H Stateside....

the 50 1.4 is a great lens and I suspect the 50-200 would be useful to you in Malaysia...

good choices both, I haven't used the 55-300 myself...

Teach you anything you want to know for a pound of that coffee....
oh never mind the coffee.... my wife never lets me have things that have previously been digested by something else...
Welcome anyways!

well now that it is officially announced....
vistec in Toronto has it listed... at several hundred dollars more than the new Nikon d7000....

I hope the price comes down a bit....

in Winnipeg some of the very vandals that tagged the city were hired to to do artistc work and other artists were hired as well to paint murals etc over top of previous graffiti... the new work was left alone by vandals.

so I guess the line between vandalism and art is in the eye of the beholder.....

I can see how having spyware and malware installed on your camera can be a good thing....
you go to take a picture, get the blue screen of death, while you're fidgeting with it to get the sd card to uninstall, it snaps a shot of your groin and sends it to a porn site that then blackmails you to take it off thier website... by selling you malware removal software...., pop up ads swamp you with ten open windows when using live view mode, obstructing you from taking photos until you've seen every ad... your lens won't zoom until you buy a Microsoft approve flash unit, whos drivers won't work with you current sensor and a new sensor will require upgrading your camera os, but you'll need newer sd cards to install the new os...

Then mac will release a camera with a new osx that works beautifully... but only with official mac sdcards, and you can only see your photos through i-tunes.... and you'll void your warranty if you open it up to replace the battery...


I think I just had an aneurism. You have killed me with this stupidity.

Are you happy?
installing windoze in anything is a recipe for disaster, if computers have taught us anything...

if I don't see a wicked crazy clear out sale on a kx with wr kit lenses before christmas...
and also if I fill up the rest of my wedding calendar for next season....

it'll be a toss up between the k-5 and this bad boy:
Sony Alert.....

I'm not interested in it.
two reasons:
One: same imaging sensor as the kx.
Two: Not enough advantages over the kx to make it worth the money.

It isn't a question of wether or not I can afford the k-5.... I can.

For me it is finding the balance between what I want and what I need on the one hand, and VALUE for my money on the other...

the middle of the road model k-r is paying too much for the benefits I could get from the kx, vs compromising too much on what additional features/benefits I could gain from the k-5....

I'd view a good deal on a kx as a means to add some fun footage to my product, for a reasonable price....
the k5 as a replacement and upgrade for one of my k10's...
the kr doesn't fit either category for me.

I saw a pk to vex adapter on Ricehigh's site, he's using it on a nex 5 from sony... it is the same lensmount as the new Sony camcorder I mentioned earlier.... BUT the adapter RH used seems to turn the lens a little bit, and as such I wonder how the fisheye zoom with it's lenshood would fare... maybe some vinetting? maybe not I don't know...

I will post a link to a test shot with the kx in a camera store for you...
kx with 10-17 and 50 1.4
nothing fancy just a quick test at the camera store...

I find the best kinds of action/bad conditions/bad weather types of shots are the ones that leave the viewer feeling an impending sense of doom, and as such are taken in conditions where both the camera operator and equipment are in eminent danger of destruction...
so it wouldn't hurt to use a camera you can afford to lose...